- Jonathan Evison talks with independent publicist Lauren Cerand about promoting books.
- Kindle shenanigans: “This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a certain famous author had mysteriously disappeared from their e-book readers.”
- Marking the 40th anniversary of the Moon landing, Kottke puts together a huge post of photos, videos, and links in commemoration.
- Our recent item rounded up all the “big” books coming out in the latter half of the year. PW alerts readers to “10 promising fiction debuts” coming this fall.
- Jacket Copy concludes its Pomo Month with an annotated list of “61 essential postmodern reads.”
- New uses for card catalogs. (via)
- The second issue of online literary journal The Critical Flame has arrived.
- Mark Sarvas offers a four-part interview with Joseph O’Neill. “I think I start with one idea. In Netherland, it was cricket in New York. Then there is an accumulation of sentences, and often just single words. Words that interest me. And I sort of build it up like a poem.”
- Amazon names the “Best Books of the Year… So Far.”
